A pregnant woman says has been left unable to have any more children after being told to push too early while in labour.

Leanne Bilon, 30, lost her baby and received irreparable damage to her cervix when nurses told her to push when she wasn’t fully dilated.

The mistake meant she was not able to have a caesarean and her baby, who she planned to name Eli, was stillborn at 25 weeks in 2012 at Croydon University Hospital.

She said: ‘I was wheeled back to delivery and left in the room alone while my baby died inside me. My baby was born stillborn a few hours later – it was horrific.

‘Nobody should ever have to go through that, it was absolutely devastating.’

She was then told the pushing could have caused her cervix to rupture, seriously reducing her chances of giving birth safely again.

Croydon University Hospital (Picture: SWNS)

Mrs Bilon, who lives with husband Yane in Thornton Heath, south London, later lost three more babies including twin girls at 18 weeks in 2013 and a son called Shay at 22 weeks in January this year.

Mrs Bilon, a juicing entrepreneur, already had three healthy children before she lost her son Eli was stillborn.

She said: ‘Through a series of mistakes, the hospital has ruined my chances of having any more children. I have been forced to bury four of my babies – and it’s destroying my life and I don’t know if I’ll ever recover.

‘I don’t want anyone else to fall into the same sad situation as me.’

The hospital has since apologised.

Zoe Packman, director of nursing and midwifery at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, said: ‘I would like to again express the trust’s sincere condolences to Mrs Bilon.

‘We have thoroughly investigated the concerns she has raised with us and have shared our findings with her.’

Findings by the Nursing and Midwifery Council said: ‘The trust investigation found that there had been failing in the overall care of the referrer.’